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by djrogers 6y ago
Apple bought Beats for their streaming service - the headphones were a nice side bonus.
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by djrogers 6y ago
> considering how the Apple Watch totally didn't eat the market of incumbents like Garmin at all Someone forgot to tell everyone buying a smartwatch that - Apple has a 50% marketshare in the market, whereas Garmin is around 7%. [1]
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by djrogers 6y ago
Ehhh, they didn't really say that - if they were told directly to remove that ability, one would expect them to come out and say so directly, and not make a wishy-washy statement like the above. Anything that 'seemingly suggests&#
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by djrogers 6y ago
Disclosure still applies for Congress (and POTUS/VP), it was repealed for 28k other gov't employees. Also, it's mandated 45 days after trades - not in advance as many here are calling for.
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by djrogers 6y ago
Using the term ‘locked in’ to mean ‘some day something maybe might lock me in’ is a huuuuuuge stretch. To the point that I’d say you’re wrong.
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by djrogers 6y ago
Yeah, definitely taking them longer to get this back than they’d planned. Fortunately the ‘classic’ extension for chrome still exists and works.
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Facemasks in the Covid-19 era: A health hypothesis(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by djrogers 6y ago
> Note: stock options are not stocks. You're not given a share in the company, you're given the opportunity to invest in the company. You have to put money in to _potentially_ get money back. While pedantically true, in reality
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by djrogers 6y ago
Why would the app need to do a lookup? Store the numbers, and if/when you test positive then submit them along with your bluetooth keys. Seems to me like a lot of these problems go away if governments stop making things more complicat
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by djrogers 6y ago
> knowing that our health care systems will be overwhelmed and a decent chunk of the population (10%?) would die. That's a ridiculous claim. The hospitalization rate for Covid19 isn't even close to 10%, let alone the mortality
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by djrogers 6y ago
> for MacOS as a guest OS (as otherwise the user interface is really slow) Is this something specific to proxmox or non-mac hosted virtualization? I ask because I regularly run MacOS without GPU passthrough without any UI slowdowns at al
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by djrogers 6y ago
Every single announcement by my county at the first lockdown was about a short sacrifice to ‘flatten the curve’. Once we were past that, it became clear that the government officials would say whatever they thought would be most palatable t
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by djrogers 6y ago
The code isn’t delivered with the push notification, it’s code from an application already installed.
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by djrogers 6y ago
> although Apple hardware has support but it's not enabled in software. Nope - HomePod mini has thread enabled. That’s the only thread device I’ve seen from apple so far, but I expect that all future ‘home hub’ capable device would
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by djrogers 6y ago
None. This guy played off his Hollywood contacts, friends, and lifestyle, and his pitch had nothing to do with VC, The Valley, or anything related to Ben Horowitz.
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by djrogers 6y ago
> The process of slowly freezing food alters the chemical structure It's not the chemical structure, it's the physical structure. Slow freezing causes large (relatively) ice crystals, which are more likely to break cell walls
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by djrogers 6y ago
What do you mean by ‘toy implementation’?
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by djrogers 6y ago
Kids bikes all have adjustable height seats. Lower it. Done.
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by djrogers 6y ago
Nahh, forget trying to bin cells and build new packs - just use them as is. Sell a PowerWall type thing made with a single 60/70/85KwH pack pulled from a vehicle after its downgraded to ~70% capacity. design your vehicle packs fr
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by djrogers 6y ago
(2014)
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by djrogers 6y ago
That study is either flawed, misinterpreted, or does not apply to American workers. The average US commute is 32 miles round trip, and that happens every work day . There is just no possible way that everyone is now driving <32mi every
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by djrogers 6y ago
> being added to the PSL reduces your ability to track users Not really, in fact it can increase your ability to track users if it's (ab)used in specific ways - see use case #2 and #3 here: https://github.com/privacy
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by djrogers 6y ago
While it does have quite a bit of details, this followup issue is clearly written by someone from FB or one of the other AdCos who wants to point the finger back at Apple. The tone and wording used here is rather rich and entitled.
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by djrogers 6y ago
I went to public school in Canada, and my wife did the same in the US. Neither of us had a kindergarten experience with desks and assignments - it was much like what you describe your experience as. Perhaps your fancy kindergarten wasn’t a
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by djrogers 6y ago
> If you don't think women are unfit to be captain (or at least "intrinsically less fit" or whatever) the punchline doesn't work. You seem to have a rather linear view of humor. People laugh at (and enjoy) comedians t
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by djrogers 6y ago
> Right now most population models suggest we'll see growth flatten within decades, and peak within a century. We’re way off topic here but what the heck… in my entire life, I’ve not seen one single ‘population model’ play out accur
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by djrogers 6y ago
> Games consoles are the best example. Not with you there bud - we have multiple game consoles and my firewall doesn’t even support UPNP. I also have never set up and DNAT or ‘punched holes’ in it to Mae them work. They just do.
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by djrogers 6y ago
> Unfortunately, disabling uPnP these days is too much of a hit to convenience, No. Just, no. There is NOTHING you need on your network that should require UPNP. It’s a horrible, insecure, and completely irresponsible protocol that
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by djrogers 6y ago
> we'll always need shitty job to keep people busy. That's a pretty darned condescending attitude to harbor there. I know a lot of people who have what you'd call s#### jobs, and they're happy, fulfilled, and proud of
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by djrogers 6y ago
> But for the GOP it's mainstream. No, it's really not. It's only mainstream in the GOP if you get your news from the left - if you associate with and listen to people on both sides of the aisle, you realize that it'

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